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Truly incredible work Mac!!

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

-John Quincy Adams

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gorgeous! Love that red too.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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These are all such incredible pieces of art on this thread. And I ESPECIALLY love that they were done with relatively simple materials. Reminds me that you don't (always) need fancy equipment to make beautiful art. Thanks for sharing!

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Birthday cards for my stepkids in Ottawa. Quick in Sheaffer calligraphy pen, on some kind of fancy paper. Colored initial half-uncial W (how's that for an anachronism!) decorated using Speedball acrylic inks.

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/db20919bd4dd0385eed4532a57c6edc4.jpg

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/ce51eb3efc339b476773d22ff7399c9d.jpg

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/efbf5dc8a4150a168b590f9f57f1d172.jpg

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Beautiful work! Especially the colouring.

Calligraphy posts usually go to the Penmanship forum... if you want to move it

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Thanks, Barleycorn. If a moderator will move the thread, I'd be happy to have it placed in the penmanship forum.

 

In the meantime, here's a practice sheet I did today, with a quote from Pastor Mark Buchanan of British Columbia:

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null.jpg

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Your work is lovely and your range admirable.

 

I've got friends in Davao. Hope you and your family are adjusting well.

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Your work is amazing!

 

This capitals are awesome!

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

[socrates]

 

Sometimes I post something about pens and penmanship at my blog

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Latest project: the Lord's Prayer in Greek. I'm making the opening word ("Father" in Greek) embossed and gold painted. The rest wil follow in a denser, but still flowing ligatured Greek hand in imitation of Cretan calligrapher Angé Vergéce, like this:

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null-10.jpg

 

(Trying to make it a little bit Copperplateish, a little bit Zapfino with mad ligatures, and all with a Renaissance era Greek flavor.)

 

Before deciding to switch to that hand, I experimented with this other hand for the body of the prayer:

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null-2.jpg

 

 

 

The embossing was fun, and gives very satisfying results. Here's how to do it.

 

First, use a broad nibbled dipping pen to write the letters on cardboard, then cut them out with an exacto-knife:

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null-9.jpg

 

Then, on a glass table, flip the cardboard over and place your paper face down on top of it. This will allow the light to shine through your cut-out letters. Take a blunt instrument that won't tear your paper, and rub the letters to make them raised above the surface of the paper, tracing the inside of the cut-out:

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null-3.jpg

 

Then flip the paper over, and you should have something like this:

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null-4.jpg

 

Then paint it whatever color you want. I hadn't thought of this, but it occurs to me that it might be possible to use the cut-out cardboard as a mask for painting, maybe even with spray paint. I may try that. It's very easy to emboss another sheet of paper with the same letters. But as it is, I just used a paintbrush with Speedball gold acrylic:

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null-6.jpg

 

The result:

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null-8.jpg

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Photobucket has really messed up my previous post, replacing photos with other ones in a most incongruous manner.

 

Here's two versions of the Lord's Prayer in Greek:

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null_zps3d59d0ef.jpg

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null_zps58ada294.jpg

 

Practice sheet with ligatures in margins:

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null_zps2ab831bf.jpg

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null_zpsc52e0596.jpg

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Wonderful work, love the book of kells stuff and the hebrew. I'm curious are you a student of hebrew? I've studied Sanskrit and Hindi before and sometimes do calligraphy in the devanagari script.

 

I've actually seen those cadels before on another site, i even practised copying the W. Some great work.

 

It should be noted though that Cadel letters aren't as hard as they look, because there are only really a few critical strokes and then lots of decoration. My point being don't be afraid to have a go. I'd love to see more of them about.

 

Again great work

 

Ys

Charlie Swaffer

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I'm a deacon in the Reformed Episcopal Church, and a student of Biblical Hebrew. I have a PhD in Greek from Cornell.

 

Glad you liked my stuff. Sanskrit is some scary hard language. Do you have a thread here to show your calligraphy?

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Cool stuff Mac

 

I have a thread on The Write Stuff called Calligraphy Examples but i'll post some more here on the Penmanship section soon

 

Charlie Swaffer

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I think I neglected to post this piece, done last Christmas for my mother-in-law. It is Psalm 128:6 in Hebrew.

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null_zps620b220a.jpg

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I think I neglected to post this piece, done last Christmas for my mother-in-law. It is Psalm 128:6 in Hebrew.

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null_zps620b220a.jpg

 

What kind of paper did you use for this writing?

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” ― Henry David Thoreau

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Wow that "C" in merry christmas was just mind blowing. Good job for all your pieces.

Fountain pens are like weapons. They just make your pocket bleed so much.

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Opening of Psalm 6. Quink on white card stock via Sheaffer calligraphy pen medium nib (pictured).

 

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k408/mattcolvin47/MattsCalligraphy/null_zps9f381b78.jpg

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